Archive for the ‘Digital Art’ Category
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
the timing of finishing – art and reality
Further Along Tree 1 – Dan Beck – digital art painting 2008
This digital painting was finished over a month ago. The previous article showing the version of this painting which felt finished, balanced, and worth saving, – based upon the piece itself and not the original vision; was written over two weeks ago.
I guess it is rather apparent that my writing is not keeping up with my creating. Actually I find everything takes longer than expected – my head is generally way ahead of my physical world – but then that makes sense. How could matter move as fast as thought?
And why do we expect things to take the time we think things will take – even if we have done something before – it might take more or less time – circumstances are always different.
But most of us, including myself, have expectations about how long even things we have never done will take.
The finished painting above matched my concept and vision more closely as well as my expected timeline for doing a painting – there is more texture, more depth, more visual confusion – and more what I had in mind to begin with -
What is wonderful about art and life – is that sometimes the head gets to follow the body – follow the physical world – and sometimes the timetable of the physical world is smarter than the head.
See Also
- Timing Innovative Music – previous article about time and timing and sharing my own creativity
- Time Expectations – though I do not completely share the capitalistic sentiments, I whole-heartedly concur that our expectations affect the timeline of completing a project
- Digital Art Prints – about art prints, digital painting, and what it means for outhouse studios to produce original prints
Tags: Art, Art Prints, creativity, digital art prints, digital painting, music, painting, prints, texture
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
evolving landscape
Further Along Tree – Dan Beck – unsigned – unfinished? – digital art painting 2008
On April fool’s day one should hope for a joke – if I have one for the day – it is unfinished like the piece above – stopped at this point and saved because it looked balanced, finished, and pleasing – but I knew I was not done because I had not portrayed the essential aspects of the tree and background from the impression on that day.
This is also based on the same tree and the same tree – but further along in the season – as well as the pun of further down the road.
As with the other jokes – one might not get that the three trees are one and the same – but then they are not anyway – each day different – changing like us -
if we trusted our senses and not our minds – much if not all, would be unrecognizable when we view what with our minds we consider to be the same thing -
That came out so convoluted sounding – I think the joke may be on me.
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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
out of time
Learning a newly written song, getting lost inside the world of a new painting, reading an excellent book are all a bit like falling in love…
I suppose anything which demands the attention such that the world stands still – that time doesn’t feel like it exists, that puts us completely in the moment and doesn’t want to let us go – has that quality.
River Spring Fauna – digital art painting – Dan Beck 2008
The art above is about the view from above – looking out on the valley – seeing the Salinas river – seeing the incredible texture and color of Spring below – that tapestry of color that pulls and mesmerizes – yes nature can pull off the effect of timelessness as well.
In the nature of out of time – and not in the fashion of deadlines – it seemed somehow appropriate on this first day (it was when I wrote this) of Spring to share a song of joy, love, and being lost or perhaps found in the world of timelessness.
Not part of the Red Eye Recordings – it is a track from 2005 CD: 1danband | dansingnew
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Out of Time – as described above – living in the timeless moment – in love, in life – music, words, performance, production – dan beck | outhouse studios | 1danband |dansingnew – 2005
- Keats, “Bright Star”, timelessness addressed – a very nicely done poem analysis – addressing the same kind of issues – and looking at multiple meanings rather than just one
- Digital Painting – a look at the special nature of art at outhouse studios and discussion of terms
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Saturday, March 15th, 2008
painting the feeling of perception
Pinnacles 1 – digital art | digital painting – Dan Beck 2008
A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of seeing the Pinnacles up close – I have only gone once, only done the one digital painting – and did it in my normal fashion – based the piece on some of the views I saw which left an impression – combined them a little – but mostly painted from the impression they left upon me.
I painted it that afternoon, the images were fresh in my inner view.
The color of the sky – though not remotely real to the day – somehow helped to convey the feeling that these incredible rock formations had on me. The different depths – the incredible tone of colors and the massiveness probably can’t be conveyed in photo or painting, but my intent has always been to capture something more intangible.
It usually works for me – but I am triggering my own memory and I couldn’t possibly know how it reads to someone never having experienced something similar.
See Also
- Digital Art – discussion of the broad meanings of the term and the process at Outhouse Studios
- Impressionist Art Gallery – other works based on glimpse, visual memory, understanding – plus discussion of impressionist art
- Pinnacles National Monument – U.S. Parks service site with most information on this incredible rock formation
Tags: Art, color, Digital Art, digital_art, painting
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
seeing for the first time
Rooted Tree – digital art – finger painting – rendering from memory impression – Dan Beck 2008
There are trees like this at one of the places I frequent with my exercise craving dog – it took me a while to notice them.
But like with most things – once one finally sees something – one starts to see the same thing more frequently. Even though I am an artist and probably more observant than most, I am keenly aware of how much of life I miss, until I become finally aware.
Perception, attention, and understanding are all fascinating subjects – I paint from an impression – a memory – quite frequently – knowing that my understanding plays an even bigger role in what I project when painting.
The intention here is not fantasy, but fun and freedom to portray the essential double rooted nature of these trees on the hillside – blasting with my own color but attempting to convey
the beauty and oddness that strikes me and makes me smile when I see them.
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Tags: Art, color, Digital Art, digital_art, hills, painting, trees
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
where is the hair?
Digital Artist & Musician – Dan Beck
digital photo – dan wearing digital painting self-portrait on t-shirt – the spirit of caricature
As of today – if there is one thing I would like to pass on – it would be the joy and flow of life
when we are not bogged down in our mire of obstacles, self-doubts, disappointment, envy, anger, jealousy, resentments, or simply self absorption
_________
To develop as an artist or maybe just the person that I am – I have isolated myself from many people I both love and care about
I don’t think this was a conscious decision; but like most people, I don’t know how to do everything I want to do – let alone what I feel like I have to do
I didn’t think through the place I am at – I have lived my life and find myself here – going with the flow and not always living consciously
____________
I submit a song – written and recorded last spring – in the context of being sick – alone and contagious – feeling my fragileness – writing about the love in my life – but really all the love in my life
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- So Much of Life We Do Unconscious – SONG – Dan Beck | 1danband – the lyrics pertinent to the above article – the melody or at least part sounds like a James Taylor song, but not one I can identify – please let me know, if you listen to music and recognize … and yet we always borrow unconsciously …
- James Taylor – November release entitled One Man Band
- 1danband – really I’ve been using the term for my recordings as early as 2002
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
All Play
Play Print 1 with Dog – digital art painting – Dan Beck 2008
This is a very recent piece of digital art – playing around with a new template – hoping to introduce a new option for sharing art – more interested in the template size and corresponding original prints than the actual painting.
As a result, I have approached this work as the title suggests – from the point of play. Despite the play – and the landscape painted with abandon – it wreaked of a particular area I had been taking my dog, Bogart, to get some exercise.
Though he probably should have been scampering around the hillside – I ended up putting him in the corner pushing my brand or symbol around – kind of indicative of our relationship I guess – teaching him that I am in charge yet him pushing and resisting most of the way.
some sort of weird karma – reminds me of myself when I was adolescent… and sometimes still am
See Also
- Digital Art – ambiguities, distinctions, and open ended meaning of digital art
- Sharing Art – search result finds blog – nice image – traced from a photo – not at all like my work – but creativity needs to be encouraged
- Tour of Youth Arts Collective – art fosters problem solving and thinking outside the box – I have seen the yaksters work and I it points more towards the kind of world we need …
Tags: Art, creativity, Digital Art, digital_art, hills, painting, prints
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
new format brings on different vision
digital art (painting) - 2 Much 2 Control – Dan Beck 2008
I have started work on a new project – which has lead to a new sized template and as a result a more fluid and playful way of creating. Not totally sure where the idea came from – but that is the nature of ideas – if one lets the mind wander and don’t rule things out before you even think about them – you find something even better as you progress.
On the path, one is always trying to take things to the next level – always striving for a new twist. My desire for a new template was one thing – but the resulting play and at least the look of this piece is a bit different and a nice side benefit.
The tree concept is just about as old as I am – one of the first things I ever committed successfully to paper – I find myself painting often when I am playing – and taking walks to give my dog the running exercise he needs has made me notice some incredible trees.
The solidness of the foreground tree – is about how we focus our attention – but also something that worked most successfully in a recently shown piece. The title is both about attitude towards world these days and the nature of trying to paint on an old computer with a template that is a bit too big for its memory. I used two different computers to create this piece because the old one – just couldn’t compute.
See Also
- Digital Art – just proving that the multiple meanings of language are also a bit too much to control
- Frozen PB&J – not particularly related – but part of that creating solutions to problems which don’t really exist – and a fun result for “just couldn’t compute”
Tags: Art, Digital Art, digital_art, painting, prints, trees
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
art and project remain remote
Remote Tree – digital art painting – Dan Beck 2008
I am working on a new project which I am not quite ready to reveal – but should be coming along rather quickly. Until I get the pieces in place, I am keeping a bit of a lid on it.
Like a lot of the art I do – I like that moment of unveiling – that moment when the image becomes printed – that tad bit of out of control and luck which can be better or worse, but is mostly better than one anticipates.
This is one of the first images from a new template which I am most excited about – size wise. This image was about a specific tree – a place – a feeling – more than an actual – but also about fitting the new project. I believe I have improved upon the template since and it will prove to be an invaluable size – opening up many new doors for a larger range in the size of art prints.
In any event, this digital painting was fun enough to warrant sharing – and so I am.
See Also
- Treework – first tree image with digital medium – still strong – but certainly not as developed with the medium. Innocence is worth noting
- Moment of Unveiling – a strange link to be sure – but google keeps getting more interesting in its results – part of a book by Nietzsche – one of my favorite (though unfortunately misunderstood) philosophers
- Opening New Doors – not so related but an interesting read and another link between art and life
Tags: Art, Art Prints, digital medium, digital painting, painting, prints
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
digital digits
On Halloween, I thought for a costume, I would shave and pull my hair back – was planning on putting on a suit too – not my normal look – if there is such a thing. In any event, it is getting to be time to put the beard back – not into the daily shaving routine and my partner likes the less scratchy beard.
So the above is a laptop snapshot – I used it for a model for the finger-painted digital art below
This digital painting – not the way I normally work, was painted using a photo model. Digital art like digital painting could mean a lot of different things. My work starts from a blank page but the field is wide open – it is new and wide reaching in possibilities.
I know many people who might have taken the photo and altered and painted on it in photoshop and quite likely come up with something quite cool. I am in favor of all creativity – but I simply used the image as a model to challenge my abilities to render an image using my fingers as a mouse to paint with – a new challenge for me – and I think a pretty good likeness. But of course I’ve seen myself.
See Also
- Figures Art Gallery – last years innovative gallery – figures
- Digital Finger Painting – article I was emailed today – not at all what I mean by the term – but these are new terms, new technology, and everyone has to coin his own terms at this point
Tags: Art, creativity, Digital Art, digital painting, digital_art, painting
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